
Story by Editor-at-Large Europe CAROLINA OGLIARO
RAHUL MISHRA COUTURE SPRING-SUMMER 2025: A COSMIC SONATA OF LOVE, LOSS & INFINITY
Paris, the eternal muse, witnessed a moment of celestial reverie as Rahul Mishra unveiled his Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture collection, The Pale Blue Dot. A collection that wasn’t merely worn, it was felt, lived, and breathed, an ode to the fragile poetry of existence.
THE UNIVERSE IN A STITCH
To understand this collection is to understand grief transmuted into gold. On December 19, 2024, Mishra’s world tilted as he lost his father, a moment of raw, unfiltered sorrow that left him both shattered and illuminated. Standing on the precipice of loss, he found himself gazing skyward, drawn to Carl Sagan’s words: The Pale Blue Dot, a reflection on Earth’s insignificance against the vast, infinite cosmos. And from that void, Mishra stitched a constellation.
Rahul Mishra fashion show in Paris, Spring Summer 2025 Couture Fashion Week, Runway Look Photo by Valerio Mezzanotti
WHEN THREADS BECOME STARLIGHT
Coco Rocha, the celestial force she is, took the runway cloaked in the weight of the universe, an inky midnight cape adorned with a hand-sequined metropolis, a skyline of skyscrapers dissolving into the galaxies above. Each thread shimmered like the flickering lights of a city that never sleeps, yet exists on borrowed time.
Nature, too, whispered through his vision. Delicate 3D embroideries of florals, dragonflies, and ethereal wings adorned gowns that seemed to breathe, reminding us that despite our glass towers and digital dreams, the heart still beats in tune with the earth. It was fashion not as ornament, but as language, a dialect of memory, mourning, and a desperate love for the planet we call home.
THE ART OF EXISTING & THE BURDEN OF BEAUTY
In every fold, in every bead, Mishra wove the eternal dance of life and death, hope and despair. He imagined cities suspended between utopia and destruction, the delicate balance between human ambition and nature’s quiet resilience. His couture spoke of the future—a future we must cherish, protect, and redefine.
The message was clear: We are but tiny specks in the grand design, fragile as the silk that graced the runway, luminous as the sequins that caught the light. And yet, in our ephemeral existence, we create, we dream, we love.
A FAREWELL, A BEGINNING
The Pale Blue Dot was not just a couture collection, it was a celestial sonata, a whispered prayer, a love letter to loss and legacy. Through grief, Rahul Mishra found transcendence. Through fashion, he offered us eternity.